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Chapter 651 - 651 651 Self-interest!

651: Chapter 651: Self-interest!

Codename Northern Fox!

651: Chapter 651: Self-interest!

Codename Northern Fox!

Little did I know!

It was a shock when I did!

This world is anything but tranquil and peaceful.

Perhaps living in a peaceful and comfortable country had made me believe the rest of the world was peaceful too.

Always leading a stable and happy life, I assumed it was the same or even better abroad.

So…

Wu Jie felt that the ‘dark world’ he discovered was filled with money and greed, rife with sin and slaughter.

There were no morals or laws, only the supremacy of money.

Afterwards,

Wu Jie continued to delve deeper through the central server of that power, learning a lot in the process.

It has to be said, these international organizations were quite tightly-knit and secretive.

The organizational structure was like a vertical hierarchy, with each business unit independent of the others.

If any single branch was shut down, it wouldn’t affect the operation of the entire organization.

The sheer number of businesses and the vast interests involved also proved that ‘Northern Fox’ as an international force, was not to be underestimated in terms of background connections and comprehensive strength.

Because the business was too hot to handle, and the flow of funds too frequent, manual handling was out of the question.

Thus, they had a specialized financial management system to automatically handle transactions.

There were no limits on receiving money, but there were limits set on payments.

Anything less than a million Gold Coins was processed automatically by the system.

For amounts between one million and ten million, the system delayed processing for five minutes, allowing for a random manual review within that time.

And payments over ten million Gold Coins had to be manually reviewed and approved.

After the match ended in the wee hours, compensating Tang Xiao with 2.4 billion Gold Coins, along with other bets, amounted to a total of over twenty billion Gold Coins.

Such enormous sums naturally required a higher-level person to review.

But as it turned out, not only did the review fail to pass, they even deleted the dang bets.

It was as though they had outright scammed Tang Xiao and the others, who had bet over a hundred million Gold Coins.

This business was just too profitable!

It was like getting something for nothing, like reaping millions of Gold Coins without spending a penny.

And Wu Jie, wanting to collect Tang Xiao’s debts…

Of course, he could secretly take over the system’s admin rights, quietly transferring the funds away.

Even if someone was watching the screen, it didn’t matter, just show them fake data.

On the surface, everything would appear normal, while in secret, the movements would continue unnoticed.

Just like those Trojans that secretly infiltrate computers, can people see them?

Without a trace, it would steal and alter the data.

It was for this reason that people invented firewalls and antivirus software.

However…

Wu Jie, who could come and go as he pleased within the security defenses of three major international giants,

Breaking into the financial management system of the ‘Northern Fox’ was hardly difficult, was it?

Besides, the betting frenzy only started in the evening, so now was the time for rampant betting.

Their financial management system was receiving a lot of money, while disbursements were relatively scarce and smaller in amount.

Most of those addicted to online gambling were mainly topping up their accounts.

Those carefully calculated individuals very seldom had the chance to win and withdraw their money.

So…

The funds under management of this power were indeed enormous, and the fund flows were quite frightening.

The system managed over one hundred countries, with over a hundred thousand bank accounts.

With the World Cup betting craze, they were almost constantly receiving money.

Paying out large sums would have to wait until after tonight’s matches, to distribute to those who had bet and won.

Even then, it was likely to be the same as last night.

If it was a small win, the system would automatically process the payment.

If you bet a few tens of thousands of Gold Coins and won over a hundred thousand, the system would automatically facilitate the transfers from the relevant accounts to the bettors up to over a hundred thousand.

If someone once again got extremely lucky, placing a heavy bet on an underdog and winning too much,

It would inevitably be subject to manual review.

A win amounting to one or two hundred million Gold Coins might be paid out, but if it was significantly large, they would simply delete the bet.

In short, it had become a very fixed routine:

Small bets, small wins, pay!

Large bets, not-so-large wins, also pay!

Large bets, won big on an underdog with terrifying odds, blacklist and delete the bet, don’t pay at all!

…

Wu Jie had been monitoring for a long time.

He discovered there were just too many gamblers around the world.

Yi Continent alone had two to three billion people, and they weren’t even the fiercest.

Ranking in order of the highest number of bets and the largest amounts were Shizhou, Yezhou, and Zhongzhou.

Tiny Zhongzhou, damn, had too many rich people.

Seni Continent, with its wide expanses, abundant mineral resources, and as host of this World Cup, had even more high-rollers betting on the matches.

Having a mine at home sure is different.

Frequent capital movement had its disadvantages, as it could attract the attention of regulatory authorities.

Therefore.

For instance, domestically, they had thousands of bank accounts under different names at different banks.

They wouldn’t allow a single account to continuously receive or transfer money, as that would be too easy to trace.

They had thousands of accounts take turns handling incoming funds or transfers.

Therefore,

The customers who placed bets, made their payments into some bank account with a commercial bank.

But when they won, the transfers to them came from a different account at a construction bank.

In doing so, they could ensure that each of their accounts didn’t operate too frequently or accumulate too much money each day, thus avoiding detection.

As the bookmaker, they were naturally winning more than losing.

Their capital gains would inevitably keep growing.

How to siphon them off?

Of course, it was through professional underground banks that money earned from various countries was funneled into the anonymous accounts of Northern Fox’s Wenhe Bank.

And that’s why, on the phone earlier, Zheng had said that every year, China loses over a hundred billion yuan to gambling.

This money is of course taken by various international forces, with ‘Northern Fox’ being just one of them, but still a formidable one.

Talk about deep pockets!

No wonder they were willing to pay Tang Xiao two hundred and forty million Gold Coin upfront before the sweetness-team competition started, to settle the debts and stop the gambling.

Not only because they were not short on cash, but also because Tang Xiao, who dared to bet thirty million Gold Coin at a time, was considered a big fat sheep-level client.

They probably didn’t want to completely offend him and were willing to continue collaborating over the long term.

But Tang Xiao didn’t agree and won an upset victory again, so they had to pay out too much money and had no choice but to give up on Tang Xiao as a client.

As for money, there was plenty.

Wu Jie could, through technical means, quietly empty all the account funds.

But apart from the accounts in China and Wenhe Bank, Wu Jie didn’t have bank accounts in other countries!

Like in Seni Continent, in Yincheng, in Nuo City…

Having bank accounts within these countries would make it convenient to move their money away.

After all, cross-border bank transfers are simply not feasible, since every country has foreign exchange controls.

Like with domestic bank cards, you can only transfer up to fifty thousand Gold Coin or the equivalent in foreign currency to bank cards in other countries each year.

That’s also why wealthy people own bank cards from many countries.

In whichever country they are in, they use that country’s bank card.

If there’s not enough money on the card, they’d exchange through an underground bank.

Otherwise, how could major celebrities and directors spend millions of Gold Coin overseas on luxury homes and yachts so easily?

…

After considering for a while, Wu Jie immediately sent a message to Tang Xiao.

He asked her to provide as many bank accounts from different countries as possible, the more the better.

Tanglong Industrial Group, as a multinational corporation, of course had to open accounts under various pretenses to conduct business in some countries.

Just like Cai Xu in Aseyah, often operating there for the Zhuzhou SAM project, he’s almost become half a Bihu citizen.

To take care of relationships, host dinners, and such, one naturally has to open local accounts.

And often, they can’t be in one’s own name, to avoid being caught and accused of crimes such as bribery.

Ten minutes later, Tang Xiao sent over a spreadsheet.

There were quite a few bank accounts from different countries, but they added up to only a dozen or so countries with just over sixty accounts.

And the Northern Fox Force’s business scope covered over a hundred countries.

So to empty them out in one go, there were still far too many missing accounts.

Wu Jie started by sneaking the accounts provided by Tang Xiao into the already-tampered finance system database and quietly transferred the money away.

Bettors were continuously placing bets; as the collection of funds was highly active, it provided excellent cover.

After that, Wu Jie contacted Zheng.

He asked him to prepare some servers first, to store the confidential data that Wu Jie would steal.

He also gave him a list with over a hundred remaining countries, asking him to provide corresponding accounts for those countries as soon as possible.

Whether it was dummy accounts for intelligence agencies, private accounts, or those of charitable organizations…

it didn’t matter what he filled in!

Wu Jie would simply drain one Northern Fox account after another.

Of course, this was just wishful thinking.

Their business was booming, and there were just too many gamblers making bets.

No sooner had he quietly transferred a million from one account, another suddenly received three million…

The Northern Fox Force’s financial system felt like a giant reservoir.

With over a hundred thousand pipes steadily flowing in funds.

Even if Wu Jie sneaked in and secretly opened hundreds of little siphons to frantically steal water, he couldn’t keep up with the inflow speed!

Gambling was making people crazy!

During the World Cup, legal and regulated lotteries sold several hundred million a day in China alone.

These shadowy, illegal football bets, on a global scale, how much money was involved in a single day?

The amount was simply too vast to calculate.

While quietly siphoning funds, he was also frantically transferring data.

The Northern Fox had been established for many years, amassing a vast trove of political, economic, military, medical, and other types of intelligence from various countries and industries.

To quietly copy and transmit all of it away would take a long time.

He had nothing better to do.

Wu Jie, through special software and while chatting idly with Zheng, learned even more about ‘Northern Fox.’

This ‘Northern Fox Force’ was no simple entity; it was established during the Gulf War over twenty years ago.

At the beginning, it was a collective of retired military personnel, agents, and so on, who formed it to traffic information, arms, and other materials.

And with the advent of the internet age, this force grew even more extensive.

Online gambling, illegal smuggling, intelligence trading…

In short, any illegal lucrative business, they had dabbled in it.

The establishment of the International Black Market Network was practically a super e-commerce network specifically serving the dark world.

And the clientele they served were very special—tycoons, assassins, human traffickers, arms dealers, gamblers, spies…

If you don’t have the diamond, don’t take on porcelain work!

To carry on such business, the force behind the scenes, its organizational members, and the web of interests were also naturally quite complex.

Many entrepreneurs, politicians, and societal elites from various countries were involved, and even some intelligence and spy agencies were included.

So…

Zheng kindly reminded Wu Jie to be very cautious.

Whether it was transferring funds, stealing data, or retreating from the office afterward.

He must be discreet, safe, and quick.

If discovered, it would be like poking a hornet’s nest, and the consequences were unimaginable.

After all, the Northern Fox Organization was tied up in too large an array of interests.

Having said that, Zheng ended the idle chat, prompting Wu Jie to get to work immediately.

The tampered system, the Trojan horses implemented, although not discovered yet, to ensure complete security, it was necessary to make several backups.

And he quietly set up a ‘logic bomb’ capable of completely destroying all the data.

Just as he had wiped away the traces of the invasion, he hadn’t even closed his laptop…

Bang!

The door to the machine room was kicked open with a forceful kick.

The fat and muscular foreigner barged in uninvited, his face dark with anger…